[单项选择]Children are always curious （）everything they see.
A. to
B. for
C. on
D. about

[单项选择]Children are always curious ______ everything they see.


A. to
B. for
C. on
D. about

[单项选择]Children are always happy. They can play ______.

[单项选择]What did the writer do as a curious child


A. She visited Victorian England and Tsarist Russia.
B. She flew to Los Angeles, Chicago and London with her parents.
C. She read all kinds of books.
D. She spent lots of time traveling on trains.

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It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class English home with the inconveniences of the equipment of an Alexandrian writer, and one realizes the enormous waste of time, physical exertion, and attention that went on through all the centuries during which the library flourished.
Before the present writer lies half a dozen books, and there are good indices to them. He can pick up any one of these six books, refer quickly to a statement, verify a quotation, and go on writing. In contrast with the tedious unfolding of a rolled manuscript, close at hand are two encyclopedias, a dictionary, an atlas of the world, a biographical dictionary, and other books of reference.
However, there were no such resources in the world in 300 B.C. Alexandria had still to produce the first grammar and the first dictionary. The present writer writes a book in manuscript; then the book is typed
A. encyclopedias are close at hand.
B. he can refer to a biographical dictionary.
C. he may recopy every word he wrote.
D. he can ask a copyist to help him to write.

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Text 4
It is a curious paradox that we think of the physical sciences as "hard", the social sciences as "soft", and the biological sciences as somewhere in between. This is interpreted to mean that our knowledge of physical systems is more certain than our knowledge of biological systems, and these in turn are more certain than our knowledge of social systems. In terms of bur capacity to sample the relevant universes, however, and the probability that our images of these universes are at least approximately correct, one suspects that a reverse order is more reasonable. We are able to sample earth’s social systems with some degree of confidence that we have a reasonable sample of the total universe being investigated. Our knowledge of social systems, therefore, while it is in many ways extremely inaccurate, is not likely to be seriously Overturned by new discoveries. Even the folk knowledge in social systems on which ordinary life is based
A. a reverse ordering will help promote the development of the physical sciences
B. our knowledge of physical systems is more reliable than that of social systems
C. our understanding of the social systems is approximately correct
D. we are better able to investigate social phenomena than physical phenomena

[单项选择]Which film is for children


A. THE WILD(U)
B. RENT(2)
C. both A and B

[单项选择]The author used the word "curious" to mean _____.


A. strange
B. inquisitive
C. scholarly
D. interesting

[单项选择]Targeting children for advertising is controversial because children ______.


A. are unable to analyze and judge advertisements
B. are unable to give consent since they are too young
C. often give off information that may be dangerous to them
D. are not ready to evaluate advertisements or information requests

[单项选择]Can we learn everything from school


A. Yes.
B. No
C. Hard to say.

[单项选择]As the children become financially independent of the family, the emphasis on family financial security will shift from protection to saving for the retirement years.（）
A. 因为孩子们已经与家庭脱离了经济关系，家庭经济得到保障，将从以保护为主过渡到为退休生活而储蓄。
B. 由于孩子们在经济上从家庭中独立出来，家庭经济保障的重心将从保护转移到为退休后的生活储蓄。
C. 随着孩子们在经济上从家庭中脱离出来，家里的财政安全主要靠退休工资，而不是保护措施。
D. 因为孩子们已经不负担家庭，家里在经济上主要靠退休工资，而不只是保护老人。

[单项选择]Researchers said Monday that having more children will run more risks of developing______.


A. heart disease
B. blood deficiency
C. family or financial problems
D. high levels of fat in blood